Re: [tied] Re: Odin the Immigrant?

Thor was also connected to Hercules.

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From: William P. Reaves <beowulf@...>
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Subject: [tied] Re: Odin the Immigrant?


> >That is certainly possible. I don't deny the Dyeus Pater element is
there,
> but since the Romans connected him to Mercury rather than Jupiter, I think
> it must have been obscured by Odin's other characteristics.
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> Recall the Romans also connected Thor to Jupiter, and Thor is never called
> "father" in the general sense, as Odin is. So at best the Roman
comparisons
> were superficial.
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> Wassail, William
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> but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the
> other in the purposed domination of the author."
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> J.R.R. Tolkien
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